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ERO Resources <br />essential relationship juniper cannot be expected to successfully reinnvade <br />• revegetated sites. Introduction of juniper by transplanting will not <br />ensure maintenance of the individuals by natural replacement. Removal of <br />woodland areas should be kept to a minimum, except where these areas are <br />obviously adventive and successional in nature. <br />Damage to the juniper woodlands as a result of roadway construction will <br />be significantly less than that caused by site facilities. Much of the <br />potential degradation to the woodlands can be avoided by selective cutting <br />and by protecting trees that remain in the right-of-way. Selective <br />cutting refers to cutting through the path of least resistence, or least <br />number of mature trees. <br />Potential subsidence of the mine roof presents the likelihood of an <br />altered ground water regime due to changes in lineation patterns. The <br />effect of this alteration on the woodlands will be to potentially divert <br />water away from mature trees. Since a substantial portion of the soil <br />moisture that maintains the trees is found at depth, these alterations <br />• could result in death and decline of large woodland areas along the <br />periphery of subsidence. Subsidence effects will also be felt by the <br />large herbivores and predators that utilize the woodland areas. <br />Construction activities and subsidence effects within the woodlands <br />present potential enhancement opportunities for the presently depauperate <br />herbaceous layer. The redeposition of topsoil material on cleared areas <br />and seeding in woodlands adjacent to roadway corridors presents the <br />opportunity of affecting a portion of the rangeland improvements that <br />would benefit the permit area. <br />II.F-28 <br />